The Elven Star Interpretations

Mystery 2: Expanding Horizons of Knowledge and Experience

​​Our essential life purpose is to experience ourselves as widely and deeply as possible. This occurs as a result of exploration, or ‘trial and error’. Our path of exploration is both created by, and assimilated by, our power and attitude of attention.

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Primary Word: Hello

Are you truly interested in the views and attitudes of others?People can feel whether our interest in them is genuine, and if it is then they respond positively and open up. Such an exchange can lead to a mutual expansion of opportunity and understanding, and of course allows us to express more of our own ideas and experiences. Without such opportunities then there is a tendency to let life go by without keeping abreast of the changing nature of reality. And be aware…it’s not enough to respond to our feelings of interest – we may need to do work to cultivate those feelings.

Do you make opportunities to meet new people?Travel broadens the mind. It expands our awareness of everything in life by showing us new ways to do things, new things to do and different perceptions. Spiritual and personal growth is measured by whether our perceptions are constantly shifting: it’s good to change our minds. Meeting new people makes us engage with the part of us that yearns to travel because we need a similar attitude of attention – one that acknowledges unknowingness and responds with healthy curiosity.

Do you make friends and contacts if you go to new place?A casual encounter may change our point of view for a while, yet the integration of a permanent change of awareness requires something of more substance. To absorb into our life new people and the new ideas they bring is to make solid a shift of perception which then forms an aspect of our new mind-set. From this is born new plans and new circumstances, a breath of fresh air that invigorates and sustains openness. It supports a healthy mental attitude and all that goes with it

The mind is a powerful tool, the most powerful we have. Like any device of power it is dangerous if misused and requires training to use properly. If properly applied, then the mind can fulfil the desire of will, and answer the appetites of curiosity.

Whenever two living things meet there is an exchange of some kind. Living is exchange. Between people, this interactivity is a complex affair having many components on all planes of body, mind and feelings. Even on the basic animal level without any acknowledgement required, we influence and are influenced by those in physical proximity to us, because of our breathing, chemical releases, a tendency to match body language and so on. Also without much awareness of it, we are subject to a moderation of the atmosphere of feelings that arises naturally when two people are near each other. Exchange is central and inevitable as a condition of life.

Openness is our willingness to modify our perceptions and beliefs. In one sense it is the opposite inclination to that required to firm up Identity. We are examined at each choice-point whether to expand or contract. Both attitudes are necessary in their season, and there is always a fluctuation between the these two directions of self-realisation; fluctuation is inevitable and healthy, and actually one requirement of optimal growth is that it is enthusiastically sponsored.

Linguistically the word is re-cognition, ‘again knowing’. It carries resonance with such ideas as understanding, empathy, communion and remembrance; it suggests a state of re-connection with an aspect of self that has been forgotten. This is the universal aspect. So, there is a part of us as individuals that touches Unity, and this can identify itself as universal; if we can but remember it then we know Unity. It is this that motivates the mind towards spiritual practice. The forgetting itself is an inevitable result of incarnation since the separation that established individuality necessarily precludes our identification with Unity. We cannot be both lost in transcendence and committed to corporeal existence; they are mutually exclusive by their very essence. Yet even as we are bound by physicality, the universal aspect of self knows of itself and yearns to be recognised. The yearning is both a feeling and a perception.

What is Elven Star?

It is a mystical / magical study of the resonance of number 7, using Sufi philosophy and Sabian Symbols to gain access to hidden and subtle aspects of the self. For their work in bringing Sabian wisdom into form, Wheeler, Jones and Rudhyar are to be acknowledged. The 7 Words System is an application of the tradition teachings of Sufism known as the 7 Planes of Consciousness. Trainings may become available - please let me know if you are interested.​James

To access the Elven Star teachings:1) Study each of your 7 Elven Star Sabian Symbols repeatedly and deeply until your familiarity with their wisdom goes beyond the surface level. 2) By gaining insight into the 7 Words System, find your own understanding of what is taught with these interpretation pages as Mystery 1, Mystery 2 and so on.3) Through meditation and contemplation, find a way to assimilate all of the 7 mysteries into a composite awareness of an aspect of yourself that you hold to be the best, the highest, the most soul-expressive and inspiring.4) Affirm your willingness and intention to change your life in some way in order to reflect your expanded sense of self. If you have not the motivation to do so, then you have not completed this work.​

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